I'm experimenting with functional reactive programming for creating
simple 2D/3D video games and interactive apps, trying to develop my own
version of it from scratch, for learning Haskell.
I got stuck with an endless loop when trying to split a stream into a
pair of two streams (a kind of reactive if/then/else). Luckily I first
read the Haskell School of Expression so I remembered that pattern
matching is not lazy and this could be the cause, which it was (I had to
replace (x:xs) by ~(x:xs))
I could also fix the problem by not using pattern matching at all, using
head/tail calls instead.
Now why isn't pattern matching lazy by default? This seems odd for a
newbie since everything else is lazy by default.
Thanks,
Peter
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